Crate digging refers to finding music by literally digging through crates of vinyl. For me, crate digging is what vinyl is all about – by rediscovering old music, you are reconnecting with history. To be a good crate digger, you have to be a musical detective Read more »
Allow me to lecture you for a minute. Yes, I’m talking to you. You go to some loud concerts, you’re in a band, or you go to clubs. The music is crazy loud and yet you never use any sort of hearing protection. Read more »
This post is long overdue. Have you used Pandora yet? If not, your life is about to get a whole lot better. I discovered Pandora a while back and then for some reason stopped using it. But I moved into a new apartment recently and didn’t have my music hard drive set up yet; PANDORA TO THE RESCUE!
Pandora is the face of the Music Genome Project. They approach music the way scientists approach DNA Read more »
Today we’re going to take a look at some standard vinyl formats, as well as some less common variations.
33 1/3 RPM– LPs (Long Play) — 33s – (usually) 12 inch
This format was released by Columbia in 1948. It changed recorded music forever Read more »
In this article we’ll explore some different place to buy vinyl.
1. Thrift stores
Supposedly, people find good and even rare records at thrift stores. They must be going to different stores than me Read more »
So I’m playing a blues gig in August. In prepping for the gig, I’ve been listening to and thinking about the blues a lot. Looking through the setlist I’ve been compiling over the last few days, I noticed how diverse the blues can be.
The most frequent knock on the blues is that “It’s all the same.” Read more »
Reuters has published a horrible story arguing that digital music (e.g., mp3s) is actually more wasteful than physical music (e.g., CDs). Click here for the article.
Maybe their conclusion is fair, maybe it’s not. It’s impossible to tell because the article itself draws it’s conclusions from such a selective set of facts. A scientific researcher presented this article would quickly ask at least the following “first-blush” questions: Read more »
So you’ve got a record player. It didn’t come with a needle, did it? Hope you saved a little money because having a decent cartridge may be even more important than having a good record player. Read more »
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When I was studying South Indian classical music in college, one of my TAs distributed a recording of an Indian drone to use for practicing vocal exercises.
That drone became useful in many ways. Read more »
There’s something so cool about the vibrate function of cellphones.
When I was a kid, I used to hold my headphones against the side panel of my wooden desk; the miracle of sympathetic vibrations turned the desk into one huge speaker for whatever was spinning on my discman. Read more »